To raise all experience to the condition of perception, of encounter, to being grazed by something other. What is it that distinguishes perception from conception, texture from contexture? They are not sharply distinguished, as if they were two alternative processes. Everything that you would call perception, more or less pure, is still contextualised, is identified as being what it is, has whatness as well as thatness, quidditas as well as haecitas. And in the same way every thought, every adventure in quiddities fails of pure universality in being presence, or having this-ness, as if you are putting forth some stuff. But you can feel entirely enclosed in thought, it is filled by your sense of self, of doership, you are absorbed in it, while the ideal of perception is a certain passivity of the self, a stepping aside, or a harmonious relation with what is not the self. Still, however ecstatic (ek-static) pure perception might be there is a certain tension that has to be maintained. After a while you let go and the thoughts come flooding back with a slightly guilty pleasure - like indulging in junk food, junk experience.